1S96.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 513 



Dkimycarpus racemosus, Hook. fil. in Benth, and Hook. fil. Gen. 

 Plantar. 1,421. A large tree: young branches rather slender, .some- 

 what glaucous, the bark afterwards pale and striate. Leaves coriaceous, 

 oblanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, the edges con- 

 spicuously undulate, the base cuneate ; upper surface glabrous, sinning, 

 the lower dull often glaucous or glaucescent, the reticulations distinct 

 in both ; main nerves 14 to 18 pairs, spreading, often irregular, pro- 

 minent beneath: length 4 to 6 in., breadth 1*2 to 2 - 25 in.; petiole 

 '35 to '5 in., channelled. Flowers in racemes or panicles, terminal or in 

 the uppermost axils, shorter than the leaves, puberulous, slender, the 

 panicles branched from the base ; male flowers sessile, fasciculate, the 

 females shortly pedicelled, both about '1 in. in diam. Anthers shortly 

 ovate, filaments thick. Disc crenate, fleshy. Drupe broader than Ion?, 

 red when ripe, 1 in. or more broad, and about '75 in. long. Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Br. Ind I, 36; Kurz For. Flora Burma I, 314 ; Engler in DC. 

 Won. Phan. IV, 472. Holigama racemosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 82 ; Wall, 

 Cat. 1006. 



The Andaman Islands. — Distrib. Burma, the Assam Range, and 

 the lower slopes of the Eastern Himalaya. 



17. Dracontomelum, Blume. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, unequally-pinnate ; leaflets opposite or alter- 

 nate, quite entire. Panicles axillary and sub-terminal. Floivers herm- 

 aphrodite. Sepals 5, imbi'icate. Petals 5, sub-erect, sub-valvate. Disc 

 large, cup-shaped, crenulate. Stamens 10, inserted at the base of the disc. 

 Ovary sessile, 5-celled ; styhs 5, thick, erect, connate by their obtuse 

 stigmatiferous tips ; ovules solitary and pendulous in the cells. Drupe 

 globose, fleshy, tubercled above the middle by the style-bases ; stone 

 hard, depressed, 2-5-celled ; cells diverging, opening by canals through 

 the top of the stone. Seeds compressed, pendulous, testa membranous ; 

 cotyledons plano-convex; radicle short, superior, centrifugal, — Distrib. 

 5 species natives of tropical Asia and the Pacific. 



Dracontomelum mangiferum, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. I, 231, 

 fig. 42. A tree 80 to 100 feet high; young branches stout, densely 

 covered with minute deciduous tawny-tomentum. Leaves 12 to 20 in. 

 long, their rachises minutely puberulous or glabrous, the petiole slender 

 and but little thickened at the base ; leaflets 5 to 8 pairs, alternate, 

 rarely sub-opposite, thinly coriaceous, the upper ones elliptic-oblong, the 

 lower ovate-oblong and shorter, all shortly and abruptly acuminate, 

 unequal-sided with rounded oblique bases : both surfaces minutely 

 reticulate when dry, the upper quite glabrous, the lower also glabrous 

 but the midrib often puberulous and with small tufts of hair in the nerve 



